Francis Beaumont Quotes

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

You are no better than you should be.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.